You can’t tell me Clarkson or Fagan or even Lyon wouldn’t have this list humming

In addition, you can’t tell me some decent assistant line coaches and a Chocko Williams or similar hardnut overseeing the whip cracking wouldn’t develop a no BS hard edge to this list

The talent is there, they’re just trotting around coz their senior coach is just trotting around, with his assistants trotting around behind him

This a coaching issue, not a personnel issue. PERIOD

Quality coaches drive the standards, set the tone for success, build culture, establish non-negotiables, adhere to applying consequences fairly, reward those who demonstrate buy-in through their performances, devise a gameplan that is effective, sustainable but also can be tweaked to suit scenarios A, B, C, D etc. (system-they call it)

We do not need a rebuild. Of course we have gaps but every team will identify gaps in their list

THIS

Yep.
Rebuild time is over.
It's time to top up with mature talent and change the coaching group.

You can’t tell me Clarkson or Fagan or even Lyon wouldn’t have this list humming

In addition, you can’t tell me some decent assistant line coaches and a Chocko Williams or similar hardnut overseeing the whip cracking wouldn’t develop a no BS hard edge to this list

The talent is there, they’re just trotting around coz their senior coach is just trotting around, with his assistants trotting around behind him

THIS

Not another rebuild FFS.

The players are there, the talent is there.

Just stop babying these grown adults, make them accountable and set some @#$%&! standards.

We need our best players training and playing together every week like Melbourne and Bulldogs and Richmond before them.

We continually overrate our list. There is some talent but we lack depth in our 22. Our bottom tier players are rubbish.

I said this earlier this year but we need a mini rebuild. Not a total rebuild.

Which means that our ambitions are delayed by another 2 - 3 years.

The risk now is that we could lose players that we don’t want to lose. The key is to retain the quality core and trade out players with some value eg SPS, Fisher etc.

Otherwise, it’s like banging your head against a brick wall.

We as a club need to get out of the bottom 6 and stay out for 3 to 4 years.
Making the 8 and playing finals is fantasy land stuff.
Rebuilding doesnt work as it creates a culture of winning doesn't matter.
No more chasing big names just work with what you have and learn to win.
This go to the draft get the best then top up is just bullshit.
We have had 5 number 1 draft picks umpteen first round picks.

You don't draft winning teams you draft individuals .
You need to build a winning team by doing the hard yards and accepting your situation and work hard to get out of it.
21 22 23 stay out of bottom 6
24 25 stay out of bottom 8
26 27 possibly play finals.

That should be the aim.
Achieve it and then we might get some where.

We have dumb stupid players who are not going to teach young players as they don't know themselves.

Do the grind and learn





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We have topped up with mature talent on big salaries. Has not worked.

We need to find another 6 - 8 players.

Our current list is not good enough.

I don’t think Cripps has signed yet.
It hurts me to say this but I would let him go.
The AFL would give us a top 10 compensation pick
It would free up space in the draft to re-sign McKay and Walsh
He isn’t the same effective player. You have to be able to run further and not just handball.
Oliver has taken his game to a new level in this area. Cripps hasn’t.

Trade Petrevski-Seton whose contract is up. You may get a second rounder for him.
That would mean 4 picks in the first roughly 36 picks and target mids.
delist
Murphy
O’Brien
Kennedy
Betts
Newnes
Silvangi
Curnow
The last 2 are hard choices but Curnow is getting on and SOJ just isn’t dynamic enough
I would play him in the midfield for the rest of the year to see how effective he can be

Before the year is out try Ramsay and Honey for extended periods as their contract is up
Play Stocker in the middle. See what he has got
Williamson has been disappointing this year but I would like to see him up forward
Docherty is a huge concern for me. Has had it tough but is the shadow of the player he once was.
Relieve him of the captain duties.
Make Weitering captain

Let’s hope Carroll Durdin Kemp come on in 2022
We are saddled with Martin McGovern Williams Saad on long term deals
They need to get better otherwise drop them
So sad to see the club not progressing but the club needs to make bold drastic change

The recruiting last year and the ethos around it has failed.
Let’s hope Curnow makes a full recovery. He would certainly add to the team.
The AFL train continues to chug along. The club needs to acknowledge that things haven’t worked
Sacking the coach as has been proven at this club over 20 doesn’t solve the problem

Radical changes not required - keep all our AFL standard players we need them.

We are getting ripped apart in the midfield and unable to stop supply. Need one elite two way player, he may be 30 years old but need to set standards in the middle. Cripps gave up battling Yeo, Redden and Sheed on his own he was getting mauled. We have all positions covered with a bit of depth but that midfield is a huge problem and has been for awhile. Need eilte players through there, the only FA worth a look and add to the midfield is Matt Crouch. Need to stop the bleeding in the middle and must be first priority.

THIS

but please not Clarkson